• Sydney songwriter Liz Martin recorded this jazz-pop David Bowie cover for recent album Dance a Little, Live a Little and just shared it with us in honor of Bowie’s 65th birthday last week. It swings and sashays and features a male vocal part from local artist Mr. Percival. MP3: Liz Martin – Sound and Vision (David Bowie cover)

• Jordan says: “I have long maintained that Van Halen’s song Jump is actually a clarion call to suicide, despite the fact that it is clearly not true. Well, now I’ve recorded a cover version as though it were.” MP3: Jordan D. White – Jump (Van Halen cover)